9/11 Truthers of the day
He must have taken a detour on his way to a Ron Paul event. Via the Corpus Christi Caller-Times:
Police arrested a protester Monday at an early morning campaign stop by former President Bill Clinton and charged him with disorderly conduct.
The protester, identified as Skyler Martin King, 25, of Corpus Christi, had been holding a sign that read “9/11 was an inside job.” After Clinton finished his speech and was shaking hands with the crowd, King began yelling at the former president, who was campaigning for his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential run.
A member of the crowd grabbed the sign and tore it in half. The man began screaming at police officers, asking them to protect his First Amendment rights.
French actress Marion Cotillard sends her sympathies.
She just won a best actress Oscar for playing Edith Piaf in “La Vie En Rose,” but unlike the famous singer’s signature tune, “Non, Je Regrette Rien,” Marion Cotillard is singing a song of the opposite sentiment.
Cotillard found herself in hot water recently over comments she made in an interview last year accusing the U.S. of a 9/11 cover-up.
“Marion never intended to contest nor question the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and regrets the way old remarks have been taken out of context,” her Paris-based lawyer Vincent Tolesano told the Agence France Presse.
The actress made her comments on a French television program in February 2007, saying “I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” including who brought down the World Trade Center.
Cotillard argued that it was an inside job, prompted by the towers becoming obsolete.
“It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to recable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them,” she said.
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Could we zay zat zees little froggy, ees ow you zay, culturally insensitive?
Well, opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one.
- “Dirty” Harry Callahan, The Dead Pool
You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Do you think maybe if someone were to write a book say on the 4th grade level with pop-ups these dipstick truthers may understand what happened?
Better make that 2nd grade level.
He just should have thrown a pie at him. That would have been okay. Oh, wait, he is not a conservative - NEVERMIND.
Redundantly stupid. Didn’t even have to open her mouth. Now we are supposed to believe what she said was not what she said. OKAY!
Can someone send them a gift subscription to “Popular Mechanics”?
Any intelligence agent can tell you that the more people involved in a conspiracy, the more likely it is to fail. A conspiracy the size of 9/11 would involve 100’s, maybe even 1,000’s of people. It couldn’t hold up.
Not to mention the fact that one can see with their own eyes on TV the planes crashing into the towers.
Tre said:
I guess these people think everyone in the government is evil or else they forgot about middle school and keeping secrets. But these are the clueless and they vote. Yikes!
If they were to use a little logic here, the Bush Administration couldn’t keep the money tracking program secret, what makes these people think a 9/11 project would be kept secret?
Oh wait, these people have no need for logic.
Never mind.
That people like Cotillard are even given air-time to spew their absurd ideas sicken’s me.
I guess those 3000 people were obsolete too, huh? and I’m sure those Muslim terrorists who flew those planes into the towers must have been paid pretty good by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (the owners) so that they wouldn’t have to upgrade the cabling.
How do idiots like this even function? You’d think their brains would be too small to provide the power needed to ensure respiration to their bodies. However, she is an ‘actor’ so she must be right. Just like Tom Cruise, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Robert Redford, Rosie O’Donnell, and all the other blathering idiots who think facing a camera makes them somehow privy to the inner workings of the universe, while imparting a buring need to share that secret information with the unwashed masses (us).
What is really annoying is that people (Cotillard)don’t speak for themselves any longer. They always have a lawyer do the talking for them. Why would you need a lawyer to deny or approve any statement that you have made yourself. She’s not on trial.
My super-liberal cousin told me 9/11 was “Small peanuts compared to what the US has done in Iraq & the thousands we have killed”. I was unable to convince her that it is Iraqs blowing up Iraqs. Oh well, some people just don’t’ get it.
Plus, she says the building must be obsolete because it was built in 1973, which makes it 35 years old. I guess, being French, she’s never seen this 119 year old obsolete building.
All I see is some actress trying to get her name up front, talking about nothing other than showing her ignorance. Just because they can “act” they somehow think they are now “experts” on the world’s problems. This guy, King, wants nothing more than to get his face in a camera, and his name in the news. It’s something to fill the void in his otherwise meaningless life. These people have no goals, nothing much going on in their lives, so they “pick” a cause and put their energies toward it…instead of something useful. I know, I was one of them once, a long time ago.
#10 babbledabble
My super-liberal cousin told me 9/11 was “Small peanuts compared to what the US has done in Iraq & the thousands we have killed”.
Why do some people ALWAYS think that what happens in other countries is ALWAYS worse than what happens here, in their own country?
I will never understand why they did away with nut houses.
Because of the mortgage crisis, of course
Where’s his “Don’t taze me bro!!” t-shirt?
heh
They have agents.
Why sister wonders if there is any benefit to having our troops in Iraq. She said and I quote “do you think it is working?” She is also going to vote for Obama. Nuff said, right? They don’t - think, they just -do.
Tiger, nice T-shirt on your name link.
Where can I get one of those?
Obviously, Mme. Cotillard was one of the folks keeping BlackJack Chirac in office.
Exactly what they’re told. Sort of like mindless robots that perform the same task over and over. If they thought for themselves, they might change their mind.
And we certainly wouldn’t want THAT, now, would we? What if everybody started thinking for themselves? Why - the Dhimmis might be out of a job!
/sarc
I have to admit…renovation costs is a new one on me. That is the first time I have heard that as an excuse.
For as we all know, the cost of all the police, fire, human lives, insurance payouts, clean-ups, airliners, fuel used, explosive materiel, and everything else that was involved in staging the farce of 9-11 was MUCH, MUCH cheaper than simply tearing down the structures and rebuilding. Plus, we got the war out of it…so we got two birds with one stone.
Never let it be said that actresses and actors…well, celebrities and wanna-be celebrities have anything going on between their heads except for those little wind-up mokeys banging cymbols and wearing a fez.
One thing you can say about the truther movement and most liberals they never let the facts get in their way. I doubt many of these folks could understand the facts presented in simple terms thanks to Popular Mechanics on the physical science involving the collapse of the Trade Towers.
I remember that day so vividly and everyday since I can’t bring myself to do more than grieve for those who have lost loved ones. How anyone could turn that day into this sort of movement is beyond my comprehension. Investigation after investigation has been launched yet their thirst has not been quenched. Osama has taken credit for being the mastermind behind 9/11, you have the muslims themselves who flew the planes into the buildings yet these people still claim that 9/11 was an inside job. I think every last one of them should be rounded up, hog tied and thrown into the sea. How’s that for tolerance?
“Fighting words” are not protected by the First Amendment. 9-11 conspiracy talk is so offensive that I think it can be considered provocative fighting words.
Why pollute the Sea 30? throw em in a wood chipper. that would make some grade “A” fertilizer.
She’s French who cares what she says.
Wasn’t it General Schwarzkopf who said “Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without an accordion”
I think the total costs of 9/11 (life lost, war, market crash, cleanup, business destroyed, new government dept., etc.) is much more than rebuilding the towers. What an idiot.
What country’s 1st amendent are you talking about? France?
If Sigmund Freud were to appear today upon viewing the state of lunacy that has developed he would no doubt commit suicide. Either that or break out the crack pipe sit down with Sherlock and become one of them. Ask these people one follow up question, do you think space men are out there watching us preparing to make contact you wont be surprised with the answer. Study some science and engineering you idiots but even then I suspect they will hold to the same nutty theories. Personally I believe sasquatch was behind it, him along with his buddies the yowee and yeti./sarcoff
aj,
your idea is much better.
*Poor unsuspecting sea creatures.*
They just close their eyes and point out that Benjamin Chertoff, first cousin of Michael Chertoff, is one of the reasearchers on the piece, therefore Popular Mechanics must be part of the conspiracy.
Zorro,
Did ‘they’ really close the nut houses or aren’t they now called Democrat Retirement Homes?
I thought it was called the House of Representatives… or was that the Senate?
aj-
no
still, no
On March 4th, 2008 at 11:16 am, Largs said:
She’s French who cares what she says.
Wasn’t it General Schwarzkopf who said “Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without an accordion”
I believe he did. And, if I remember correctly, General George Patton said that he’d rather see a German division in front of him than a French division behind him.
Damn, she sure is astute. You just can’t fool some people. If only the foolish masses had the insight of people like her. Now that she is on to the truth she better go into hiding as men in black suits with dark glasses will soon be visiting her.
MrV:
As we say in Texas, rah chair: http://thoseshirts.com/anti-obama-shirts.html
Anyone admitting he or she’s a Truther is admitting he or she is an imbecile.
Well yes sir it is all an inside job doncha know. The 3000 that were in the trade buildings were secreted away to Denver International Airport. It is there they were kept in the underground facility and slowly fed to the Alien lizard men from outer space in exchange for technology.
(Lizard men and other far out theories on Denver international Airport are getting a lot of publicity at the moment. Go figure … Ron Paul supporters.)
These morons would not believe the sky is blue if a conservative told them so. they would come up with some sort of theory that global warming has changed the color from a green or pink to blue because of mans careless attitude for mother earth.
Truthers are people to whom the reality of Isamofascism is literately intolerable. So they deal with it by denial and displacement. You cannot convince them by any amount of evidence, and disputing their delusion only makes them angry.
Hence BDS, the anger against Sen. Lieberman, etc.
They are nuts.
Everyone needs to feel important, but as someone who got caught up in the middle of it that Tuesday morning, it really makes this reader laugh when individuals either deny 9/11 happened, or call it an “inside job.”
The worst was the first year these bozos congregated “en mass” at Ground Zero (2005?) during the remembrance ceremonies, with their black tee-shirts and signs.
I got SO heated with one of them as I walked to work, that we walked right into a FOX 5 reporter live on air. I would pay $ for that footage!
StandardDeviation said:
Beat me to it, but yeah. They have their list of professionals and experts with lists of questions (though if you look at their qualifications, out of hundreds of supporters, only about a half dozen have the background to quantitatively analyze a structural collapse). And when someone takes them on to answer their questions with logic and facts, the Truthers always come back with a “well, what about….?!” With the Truthers, it’s not about facts, it’s about faith. They have a particular world view, and, the same as any religious faith or political ideology, seek whatever “truth” they can to justify it, in this case their seething hatred of Boöosh or the Joooz. They claim to be open-minded, but reject all facts that counter what they want to believe. It’s a waste of time to try to convince them of the error of their ways.
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Krauthammer’s Razor (with apologies to Occam): In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
Wade, it’s the same 1st Amendment that does not protect someone falsely yelling “fire” in a crowded theater.
An insignificant individual trying to amplify their importance at an insignificant event.
Man, the “arts” don’t prepare its “professionals” for much, do they? It doesn’t seem a lot of thought went into this comment Ah, to be the French…
Was Cotillard there when the Towers were built? Did she know the process undertaken to build such towering edifices? Is she an architect or scientiest or just pretending to be?
Such a comment(s) is a slap to all those who lost someone they loved that day including me. I think the “arts” or Hollywood sucked the “human being” right out of her, don’t ya think? Add one more useless boob to the pile…
When people don’t have a job/life/clue/functioning braincell/rationality you get projects such as this experiment in stupidity. Becuase everyone knows double wrapped chicken wire is the equivalent of steel girders.
…and a cup of Kerosene on cement is the equivalent of 23,980 gallons of jet fuel.
People like this just do not understand basic physics. A more simple experiment is to bust cinder blocks with your head. If you place the ends of the blocks on anything it is quite easy. If you place the blocks on the ground you will kill yourself. Also, you can stack a bunch of blocks on top of each other and you will kill yourself. If you place spacers between the blocks, you can bust a hundred as all you have to do is get the first one going and the weight and gravity take care of the rest.
Simply put, the force being applied DOWN on the center is amplified by the force being applied on the ends UPWARD. Collapse is eminent with the right amount of pressure. I have been winning bets with this since I was a kid. My kids (girls) can bust blocks with ease.
RetFireman wrote:
This is the first time I’ve heard that too. Is it a common Truther belief or does she have her own private wing in their asylum?
I would think the conspiracy Truthers would be contemptuous of that theory, since it attributes the destruction to Greedy Capitalists rather than Deranged War Mongers in our Government.
The Nero Theory of city renovation makes a come back.
The name ‘Skyler’ gave it away really.
France continues to hold its central “raison d’etre” that being the “prostitute of Europe.” This french actress is probably one of the 20% of french voters who are members/supporters of their Communist Party. Can you imagine anyone being so stupid as to join a communist party in a democracy? Anyway, her comments are about the same if not more sophisticated than B.O.’s preacher, and those of most US democratic voters. What a sad day when a stupid cheese sniffing, snail munching, whore of Europe surrender monkey, french actress can accurately articulate the beliefs of the US democratic party. There is a good reason the cartoon character of the romantic smelly skunk, Pepe LePew, is french mon amis!